What made this call? (1 Viewer)

What made this call? Georgia, USA

Tift County Georgia (south central Georgia, USA) 22 April 2010. In heavily wooded swampy land near residential areas.

If I can use a crow as a comparison and indicate a crow call as the familar "caw caw caw", the bird I heard (I did not see it, but had the impression that it must have been crow-size or larger) had a call several notes higher that a crow and repeated about 8 times compared to the crow's 3 or 4:
"ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah"

Also, is there a web site that has recording of bird calls? Perhaps if I had some clue as to what bird I heard, I could listen to 5 or 10 and perhaps find it rather than listen to them all.

Dick Marti
Tifton, GA

Did it tend to put them together in duplets? If so, maybe a fish crow?

I agree that Fish Crow is a good guess at what you were hearing. Try this web page, which has a link to the calls.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/FishCrow.htm#voice

Maybe a hawk

The fish crow sound is too spaced out: uh.............uh..............uh..etc
I looked around some more on bird sounds and think that the red-shouldered hawk sound is closer to what I heard, but I am not sure.

Dick

bookworm14 said:

I looked around some more on bird sounds and think that the red-shouldered hawk sound is closer to what I heard, but I am not sure.

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Red-shouldereds call in distinct "two syllable" calls, where the first syllable is a little higher in pitch and just a bit louder than the second syllable: KEEyur
KEEyur KEEyur. A distinctive call, very loud.